To have high capability cracking, you need an immersive, entreprenuerial computer culture. North Korea's regimented economy is unlikely to have this.
However, you can implement tremendous damage at the script-kiddie level as we have seen time and time again. Compound this with that MicroSoft was forced to reveal parts of its source-code to foreign governements. That code was copied and widely distributed the first day.
To implement aperature synthesis you need to have the phase of the signal. Almost all optical recording devices just record the amplitude or intensity, because light waves vibrate at teraherz, i.e. beyond present day electronics, although we are closing in. Radio operates a megaherz which is easy to capture, record, transmit the phased signal.
If you have a full signal and high fidelity transimssion system you can send the actual light signals, with phase, to an analog inferometric synthesizer. This is presently being done at the ESO observatories simulating a optical mirror several hundred yards wide. This system has seen first light light, but is still in the developmental stage. Atmospheric distortion is a major issue.
Currently all of our engineering physics is based on electricity and magnetism which depends on electrons and whole protons & their anti-particles (PET scans), plus radioactivity which depends on the weak force. However the math of the strong force was worked out first due to the weird large hadron zoo particle physicists discovered in the 1950s and 1960s. Then this mathematics was extended to unify two of the other forces- weak with E&M.
Big engineering breakthroughs are anticipated if gravitation can be added to this mix. This predicts blackholes, wormholes, non-inertial acceleration and other possibilities. So far standard unification mathematics hasnt worked. And exotic math like strings hasnt made a testable prediction yet.
According to rough count of the astronauts bios at the NASA web site, there have been about 350 of them. There have been four private astronauts in space if you count the two soyuz ones. I wonder whn the number of private astronauts will exceed the government ones? I guess 2010.
(I counted the corporate payload specialists [ about 20 ] as government.)
China is about to directly enter the US car market with low end vehicles as little as $7,000. There is some controversary about close imitation of US manufacturers, but that is a side-issue.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger, among other baby advisors, would generally condemn high tech shortcuts to directly being the the infant at all times. For better or worse. nature evolved humans for intensive child caring.
Almost every MS product since its inception three decades ago was originally invented somewhere else- MS-DOS, Windows, BASIC, Multiplan, Words, Windows, MS-Tunes, etc.
Some purchased, some was blatantly copied.
MS has no business making this complaint.
Fluctuations in size of the ozone hole could be a natural cycle that grows and shrinks over decades. The hole has only been observed for about two decades, so we cant be sure. Its also crazy to rule out man made causes because of the danger when the ozone it lost. Its unscientific to blame it solely on humans, because there could be other causes.
Some google references mention 10-15 watts per node, giving about 250 kilowatts for the 16K node test machine.
They were trying to stay under two megawatts for the full blown 130K, 360TF machine planned in a couple years. That is the site power capacity.
The tech world is full of greedy guys whose passion is chasing the buck rather than ideas. Normally I full concern when someone loses their livelihood. But the greedy ones provide amusement, just like the bad guys in some of the Shakespeare plays.
If one watches ten hours of TV a day for their entire life, that is about 250,000 hours. If you wanted new material every hour, and assuming PAL, then you'd need about 250 TB.
Does anyone know the total amount of network and cable TV archives?
Rutan's effort harkens back to the days of the individualistic test pilots captured in Tom Wolfe's book The Right Stuff and movie spinoff.
No more boring NASA-bots.
The guy who was the elderly mentor that tricked the kid into becoming the Last Starfighter was the famous musical actor Robert Preston. He "owned" the "76 Trombones" lead on stage and in the movie. I think this was his last role before croaking.
The computer graphics in the navigation and landing computers in 2001: A Space Odessey seemed to be computer graphics. There were Tektronix line-graphics terminals at the time, or some oscilliscopes did line drawings. However, they were as good as those in 2001. So the computer screens in 2001 were implemented by cartoon cels.
This my hypothesis:
Usually there is a gradual decrease in price after a new generation has been introduced. A new chip might start at $50 because of single source and yield issues, then drop over several years to about $2 or the rock bottom manufacturing price. The current generation dropped very fast about four years ago, to the $4 range. At the same time, the next generation has been slow to come to market, an rather long delay. Moore's law could be slowing down.
There have been occasional stories about companies that tried to fake out the page ranking algorithms, then suddenly dropped form the results. (Of course you cant find this by googling.) This would imply thta google has an enemies list.
I was under the impression that known pedophilia sites are blocked, though regular porn isnt.
I notice that DRAM prices, for the same technology,
have stayed at their 2001 price level at $100 to $150 per gigabyte. During the same period flash memory has fallen from $300 per gigabyte to $80. I like to look for "odometer threshholds" when prices drop the next factor of ten (about every every five years). For example, hard disk fell below $1 / GB in 2003 and flash $100 / GB in 2004.
I did read recently there was some price fixing in the DRAM market.
All the direct driving functions will be through mechanical control, e.g. speed, direction, and breaking.
All the other functions through voice control to avoid distraction, e.g. passenger temperature, music, lighting, map info requests, road considtions, etc.
The History Channel has been running a docu-drama about one of the MIT Blackjack Teams. This is supposed to be one of the teams a couple years before the one in the Wired article and bestseller book (soon to be theater movie), but the strategy was similar. The show was pretty interesting. Purportedly they interview several of original players.
Slashdot Mirror
That would be my price for a space trip.
To have high capability cracking, you need an immersive, entreprenuerial computer culture. North Korea's regimented economy is unlikely to have this.
However, you can implement tremendous damage at the script-kiddie level as we have seen time and time again. Compound this with that MicroSoft was forced to reveal parts of its source-code to foreign governements. That code was copied and widely distributed the first day.
To implement aperature synthesis you need to have the phase of the signal. Almost all optical recording devices just record the amplitude or intensity, because light waves vibrate at teraherz, i.e. beyond present day electronics, although we are closing in. Radio operates a megaherz which is easy to capture, record, transmit the phased signal.
If you have a full signal and high fidelity transimssion system you can send the actual light signals, with phase, to an analog inferometric synthesizer. This is presently being done at the ESO observatories simulating a optical mirror several hundred yards wide. This system has seen first light light, but is still in the developmental stage. Atmospheric distortion is a major issue.
Currently all of our engineering physics is based on electricity and magnetism which depends on electrons and whole protons & their anti-particles (PET scans), plus radioactivity which depends on the weak force. However the math of the strong force was worked out first due to the weird large hadron zoo particle physicists discovered in the 1950s and 1960s. Then this mathematics was extended to unify two of the other forces- weak with E&M.
Big engineering breakthroughs are anticipated if gravitation can be added to this mix. This predicts blackholes, wormholes, non-inertial acceleration and other possibilities. So far standard unification mathematics hasnt worked. And exotic math like strings hasnt made a testable prediction yet.
According to rough count of the astronauts bios at the NASA web site, there have been about 350 of them. There have been four private astronauts in space if you count the two soyuz ones. I wonder whn the number of private astronauts will exceed the government ones? I guess 2010.
(I counted the corporate payload specialists [ about 20 ] as government.)
China is about to directly enter the US car market with low end vehicles as little as $7,000. There is some controversary about close imitation of US manufacturers, but that is a side-issue.
INcluding Iraqi civilians. Enough said.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger, among other baby advisors, would generally condemn high tech shortcuts to directly being the the infant at all times. For better or worse. nature evolved humans for intensive child caring.
Almost every MS product since its inception three decades ago was originally invented somewhere else- MS-DOS, Windows, BASIC, Multiplan, Words, Windows, MS-Tunes, etc. Some purchased, some was blatantly copied. MS has no business making this complaint.
Fluctuations in size of the ozone hole could be a natural cycle that grows and shrinks over decades. The hole has only been observed for about two decades, so we cant be sure. Its also crazy to rule out man made causes because of the danger when the ozone it lost. Its unscientific to blame it solely on humans, because there could be other causes.
Some google references mention 10-15 watts per node, giving about 250 kilowatts for the 16K node test machine. They were trying to stay under two megawatts for the full blown 130K, 360TF machine planned in a couple years. That is the site power capacity.
The tech world is full of greedy guys whose passion is chasing the buck rather than ideas. Normally I full concern when someone loses their livelihood. But the greedy ones provide amusement, just like the bad guys in some of the Shakespeare plays.
I remember in Farenheit 451 the government would incite the coorperation of the masses with video bulletins. "1984" too?
If one watches ten hours of TV a day for their entire life, that is about 250,000 hours. If you wanted new material every hour, and assuming PAL, then you'd need about 250 TB.
Does anyone know the total amount of network and cable TV archives?
Rutan's effort harkens back to the days of the individualistic test pilots captured in Tom Wolfe's book The Right Stuff and movie spinoff.
No more boring NASA-bots.
Sounds like a another fanstasy too goo to be true :-)
This works out to a little less than 4000 pixels on a standard screen at two feet away. Asuuming optimum contrast.
Some VR displays get away with far less by tracking at the eye is looking at and only drawing that region at maximum resolution.
The guy who was the elderly mentor that tricked the kid into becoming the Last Starfighter was the famous musical actor Robert Preston. He "owned" the "76 Trombones" lead on stage and in the movie. I think this was his last role before croaking.
The computer graphics in the navigation and landing computers in 2001: A Space Odessey seemed to be computer graphics. There were Tektronix line-graphics terminals at the time, or some oscilliscopes did line drawings. However, they were as good as those in 2001. So the computer screens in 2001 were implemented by cartoon cels.
This my hypothesis:
Usually there is a gradual decrease in price after a new generation has been introduced. A new chip might start at $50 because of single source and yield issues, then drop over several years to about $2 or the rock bottom manufacturing price. The current generation dropped very fast about four years ago, to the $4 range. At the same time, the next generation has been slow to come to market, an rather long delay. Moore's law could be slowing down.
There have been occasional stories about companies that tried to fake out the page ranking algorithms, then suddenly dropped form the results. (Of course you cant find this by googling.) This would imply thta google has an enemies list.
I was under the impression that known pedophilia sites are blocked, though regular porn isnt.
I notice that DRAM prices, for the same technology, have stayed at their 2001 price level at $100 to $150 per gigabyte. During the same period flash memory has fallen from $300 per gigabyte to $80. I like to look for "odometer threshholds" when prices drop the next factor of ten (about every every five years). For example, hard disk fell below $1 / GB in 2003 and flash $100 / GB in 2004.
I did read recently there was some price fixing in the DRAM market.
All the direct driving functions will be through mechanical control, e.g. speed, direction, and breaking. All the other functions through voice control to avoid distraction, e.g. passenger temperature, music, lighting, map info requests, road considtions, etc.
The History Channel has been running a docu-drama about one of the MIT Blackjack Teams. This is supposed to be one of the teams a couple years before the one in the Wired article and bestseller book (soon to be theater movie), but the strategy was similar. The show was pretty interesting. Purportedly they interview several of original players.
(Too silly to pass up.)